Yoshi Busts Out the Big Eggs in Yoshi’s New Island

Yoshi Busts Out the Big Eggs in Yoshi’s New Island
Yoshi and Baby Mario Team Up for an Eggs-traordinary Nintendo 3DS Adventure
Business Wire
REDMOND, Wash. -- March 13, 2014
It’s time to get egg-cited! Yoshi’s iconic green-dotted eggs have grown to
gargantuan size in the Yoshi’s New Island game, launching for Nintendo 3DS on
March 14. In his new platforming adventure, Yoshi once again moves from
sidekick to hero and traverses a wide variety of worlds on a new island to
help Baby Mario reunite with his kidnapped brother. Yoshi’s New Island is the
third game in the beloved Yoshi’s Island series and features inventive new
transformations, giant new eggs, colorful new art styles and a fun new
multiplayer mode.
Yoshi's New Island launches on the portable Nintendo 3DS system on March 14.
The game includes new f ...
Yoshi's New Island launches on the portable Nintendo 3DS system on March 14.
The game includes new features like massive Mega Eggdozers, inventive
transformations with unique controls and a two-player multiplayer mode.
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“Yoshi’s New Island will appeal to fans of the previous Yoshi’s Island games,
but also to younger gamers who are experiencing the series for the first
time,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of
Sales & Marketing. “With Yoshi’s New Island, the slate of 2014 Nintendo 3DS
games is off to an excellent start.”
Yoshi’s unique abilities are taken to new heights in Yoshi’s New Island.
Similar to previous games, Yoshi can swallow enemies using his long tongue and
turn them into eggs, which can be thrown to overcome challenges. This time,
two giant eggs enter the mix: The massive Mega Eggdozer plows through the
environment and opens up new areas, and the Metal Eggdozer can strategically
be used to roll over enemies or explore underwater areas.
The new island that Yoshi and Baby Mario explore together contains six worlds
full of a variety of levels. These levels don’t have a time limit, so players
can take their time exploring as they progress through the game. The duo will
visit all manners of different locales – from slippery snow slopes to watery
wonderlands – overflowing with creative platforming challenges, wild enemies
and a ton of collectibles that players will love to find. And the different
worlds in the game are not varied in game play alone. Each world features a
different beautiful art style, including ones inspired by watercolor paintings
or crayon drawings. Yoshi will also need all of his skills to battle a
larger-than-life boss that awaits at the end of each world.
At certain points in Yoshi’s New Island, Yoshi will be able to transform into
many different vehicles and objects, including a helicopter, a mine cart or
even a jackhammer. These transformations help Yoshi make his way through
special areas and are controlled using the gyroscopic controls of the Nintendo
3DS system. By grabbing a special type of star, Yoshi transforms into Super
Yoshi, giving him the ability to soar through the sky or run along walls and
ceilings. Yoshi’s New Island also features helpful items like the Flutter
Wings, which let Yoshi fly through the air. This item is great for players who
have trouble completing a level, and ensures that people of all ages and skill
levels can enjoy the game.
After playing the single-player adventure, players can team up with a friend
in the two-player mini-game cooperative challenge. In this mode, two
characters compete in six mini-games like Eggy Pop, which asks players to use
eggs to pop balloons, and Flutter Finish, a contest to flutter jump the
farthest. Using Download Play, two people can play this mode together using
only one game card, or connect via local wireless. (Additional Nintendo 3DS
systems, which are sold separately, are required for multiplayer mode.)
Also launching on March 14 is a green Yoshi Edition Nintendo 3DS XL system
that features an image of Yoshi on the front, as well as a series of cute
Yoshi eggs on the back. The system will launch at a suggested retail price of
$199.99. The Yoshi’s New Island game will be available separately in stores
and in the Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS at a suggested retail price of
$39.99. For more information about the game, visit
http://yoshisnewisland.nintendo.com.
Remember that Nintendo 3DS features parental controls that let adults manage
the content their children can access. For more information about this and
other features, visit http://www.nintendo.com/3ds.
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launched the Nintendo Entertainment System^™, Nintendo has sold more than 4.2
billion video games and more than 669 million hardware units globally,
including the current-generation Wii U, Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL, as
well as the Game Boy^™, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi^™ and
Nintendo DSi XL^™, Super NES^™, Nintendo 64^™, Nintendo GameCube^™ and Wii
systems. It has also created industry icons that have become well-known,
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Pokémon^™. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in
Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo’s operations in the
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